In one scene they spot a ship loaded with pods coming into harbor and it blares out Amazing Grace on bagpipes, what's the significance of this, why that song, is it a maritime tradition or just a nod to humanity being 'saved'?
Brad Pitt, you're on my s***list.
Not sure, but another movie with this song was called BETRAYED starring Tom Berringer and filmed in the early 1990s, it was a drama/thriller about the Ku Klux Klan and they played that song while performing their evil rituals of cross burning and killing people they did not like.
So that song is basically ruined for me, every time I hear it I either think of one of the scariest stories of all time that STILL gives me nightmares as an adult or the evil ku klux klan, those thoughts come into my head when hearing that song oh well.
*SPOILERS* It's like the moment in the original film where Kevin McCarthy hears beautiful music playing in the distance but upon inspection just finds a farm where pods are being harvested.
It's meant to symbolise a glimmer hope for humanity, followed by desparity when you find out it's just more pod people.
I've always thought that since somebody was playing music it made them think there were humans there since those taken over by the aliens were nothing but stoic and probably had no desire to ever listen to music. I don't think it had anything to do with the fact that it was "Amazing Grace".
sharePerhaps their idea of "Amazing grace" is to eschew emotion?
Maybe they are aware of it and have evolved beyond it, beyond Love or Hate.
The old question of peace and tranquility traded for tears in War or the joy of Sunrise.
Maybe they are an old, much older form of life and see us as juvenile, to be mocked.
Given, it is also a good semiological trick by Kaufman to underscore their difference from us but at the end we've been invaded and destroyed and it just looks like Thatcher's grey, corporate Britain.
I must run and hide now... I hear them... they're coming for me... playing Bieber!
I don't recall dying - must have happened when I was too drunk to give a flying FU.....
Remember in the mud baths that Nancy says the plants love music? I guess she was right.
share[deleted]
Having worked in the maritime industry for many years, I can confirm that it is indeed a maritime tradition in English-speaking countries. The hymn was written by a Scottish sailor in the 18th Century and is traditionally played when someone is buried at sea. (Note that Scotty plays it at Spock's funeral in "The Wrath of Khan" even though Spock obviously wasn't a Christian.)
Since the pods are being shipped in to replace the humans, maybe it's some kind of grim alien joke?
Having worked in the maritime industry for many years, I can confirm that it is indeed a maritime tradition in English-speaking countries. The hymn was written by a Scottish sailor in the 18th Century and is traditionally played when someone is buried at sea.The hymn was written by John Newton, a preacher formerly a big-time sailor and slave-trader. Around the time he wrote the hymn he started to have grave second-thought about African slavery and his own previous role in it, and he became a leading abolitionist. He lived to see slavery ended throughout the British Empire in 1807 by which time 'Amazing Grace' had become the anthem of the abolitionists with the 'Was blind but now I see' taken to refer to the journey of people like Newton who'd been slavers but seen the light. There was a movie about this a few years ago, Amazing Grace (2009).
Was Kaufman perhaps making a prescient comment about the rise of the Evangelical right which ultimately culminated in the elections of Reagan and W. Bush?
shareSounds exactly like the ones at the end of STAR TREK 2 at Spock's funeral...and Nimoy was in this
share[deleted]